Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.